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Current Schedule for APS 510 Innovative Technologies and Organizations in Global Energy Systems Fall Term 2011-2012

Mtg #

Date

A. Lecture TopicsGB244

B. Assigned Reading for

Discussions

C. Case

For Discussion(subject to change)

D. Guest

Speaker(subject to change)

E. Other Class/

StudentActivities (Tues)

F. Tutorial

Sessions (Thurs)

BA2195

0.Sept 8 Tutorial will notmeet on Thurs

Sept 8, but Prof

V. will be

available for

Q&A in tutorial

room BA2195

from 4:10 pm to 5

pm.

1.

Sept 13 Course overview syllabus review (1) Al Gore 2008 speech(2) Bill Gates 2010

interview

Brief video, BBCTesla

Case study primer

Quiz 1 (takehome) assigned

Tutorial will meet

on Thurs 9/15

all students

should attend

2.

Sept 20 Global engineering Entrepreneurship Jim Poss Suzlon - Quiz 1 due at startof class

Tutorial status to

be announced

(TBA)

3.

Sept 27

Venture Capital (VC)

Biofuels

Cleantech

(1) Khosla update article

(2) Chrysalix Ventures

portfolio

Khosla Ventures - TBA

4.

Oct. 4 Global projects Project Finance Big Oil Scaling cleantech

(1) C. Kennedy et al:GHGs in Global Cities

(2) Optional ProjectFinance Teaching NoteU. Penn/Wharton

Suncor/Oil Sands - Quiz 2 (during

tutorial session

on Thurs. 10/6)

5.

Oct 11 Environmental issues Climate Change &

Carbon Markets

Climate Change &BP

The Greening ofPetrobras

- TBA

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6.

Oct 18

Environmental issues,

contd

(1) 2010 BP Gulf spill

(2) Wind Vs. Coal, Atop a

Mountain

(3) Italian Town NYT

Cape Wind - Intro to group

project

TBA

7.

Oct 25

ICT and Energy Overview

and cases

- Guest Prof.

(1) Malone & Klein;

(2) EnerNOC- Midterm on class on

Tues. Oct 25 (about

60 mins.)

TBA

8.

Nov 1

Modeling Energy Futures (1) Mark Jacobson paper

(2) Crossroads at

Mmamabula

- Group Project

proposal due Thurs.

Nov. 3 at 4 pm

TBA

9.

Nov 8

Globalization context - the

BRIC Countries - BRIC

growth and

energy/environment issues

Sinopec - TBA

10.

Nov 15

Globalization context

developing countries

- Guest Prof.

(1) Friedman (HF&C)

hardcopy Reader C

(2) H2CTW - Brazil case

in hardcopy Reader C

E + Co - Quiz 3 (Takehome) - due at

start of tutorial

on Thurs.

11.Nov 22

Partnering (1) Transport Revolutions(Gilbert) excerpts in

hardcopy Reader C

TA Energy (Turkey) - TBA

12.

Nov 29

SDTC

Canadian solutions

targeting global

deployment

Hydrogen, Fuel Cells

TBA - TBA

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Dec 6

Class summary and

looking aheadAll Project

Reports due at

start of class on

Tues Dec 6;

Student GroupProjectPresentations

Part 1

Student GroupPresentations

Part 2

Quiz 4a (Tues)& Quiz 4b

(Thurs) - topic:group projects

Final Examprep info

Final

ExamFinal Exam Date

TBA